The latest iteration of The Mummy looks better than ever, but I really loved the humor in the last trilogy, and I see no sign of that here so far. Still, I live in hope, and the new trailer rocks!
The number one box office sensation of 2016 in Japan finally comes to US theaters this weekend: Makoto Shinkai’s masterpiece Your Name. That’s the one I intend to see, but another interesting option is Colossal, about a woman connected to a gigantic alien trashing downtown Seoul (because I guess it couldn’t afford the ticket to make it to Tokyo, which has a rich cultural heritage of being trampled by giant monsters). Actually, I might have to see them both this weekend.
The obvious winner this week is Star Wars: Rogue One, arguably the best film in the franchise so far. In Anime, Naruto Shippūden Set 30 contains episodes 375 through 388 for more Ninja goodness; for reference, they are currently streaming episode 500 from Japan. Hyperdimension Neptunia is being released in a S.A.V.E. edition, which makes now a great time to add this game-to-anime project to your collection.
I just saw the new Ghost In The Shell movie today, and it was every bit as good as I had hoped; firmly in that universe but from a parallel time line. I look for some Yoko Kanno music to post in honor of it, but didn’t immediately find anything posted by the copyright holders, so I thought I would share this new track by Q’ulle instead. The song is called Don’t Stop and was just posted in the last two weeks; it is their first single from their new release, and will go on sale this Wednesday the 5th. The second track is Heartbeat, their 3rd single from their 2015 project, and the 3rd tracks is 2016’s 5th Single, Alive.